Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes and I am about to share with you a very special episode of this podcast. Last month, I sat down with Eva Unterman inside the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art’s Holocaust Center to discuss her life and to learn from her.
It has been 77 years since the liberation of Nazi death camps during World War II. In this conversation, Eva recounts her family’s experiences in the war from the day the Nazis invaded their home in Poland in 1939 when she was a small child to their liberation in 1945.
Eva turns 90 this month and is celebrating with her induction into the Tulsa Hall of Fame. We begin this conversation discussing her enshrinement and what it means to be a part of the 36th class of the Hall of Fame. You can read about all the inductees in our October feature.
I’ve spent most my life studying military history and it started with World War II. I’ve had the honor a of meeting numerous veterans of that war and sharing some of their stories. Eva says every one of them are her heroes because they all fought to stop Adolf Hitler and the genocide.
We close this conversation with her thoughts on the world today as she sat a few feet away from a floor-to-ceiling image of white supremacists marching with tiki torches in Charlottesville in 2017. She’s concerned about the rise of fascism and just as much so about how we’re mistreating our planet that’s creating devastating results.
It’s one thing to hear Eva tell her story. It’s another to watch her share it. We also filmed this conversation. You can view it here.
Before we begin, I’m sharing a sponsor message so you can listen to the conversation uninterrupted.
Thank you so much to Eva and the staff at the Sherwin Miller.
This is Tulsa Talks with Eva Unterman.